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Josh McHugh in Wired has a feature on RFID chips in supermarkets. He describes his visit to the Future Store built by European retailer Metro to be the premier live testing ground for RFID tags. Thanks...
View ArticleSchoolchildren to be RFID-chipped
Silicon.com reports on Japanese authorities decision that tracking is best way to protect kids. The rights and wrongs of RFID-chipping human beings have been debated since the tracking tags reached the...
View ArticleBuilding walls
The War on Terror, like any war, provides the opportunity for certain technologies to be developed at an accelerated pace. The problem is that we seem to depend on the rather glib assertion that...
View ArticleRFID users say no privacy law needed
ComputerWorld reports that a U.S. law enforcing privacy rules for radio frequency identification (RFID) isn’t needed because companies experimenting with the technology are committed to protecting...
View ArticleRFID tags become hacker target
CNET news reports that privacy advocates may not be the only people taking issue with the current crop of radio-frequency identification tags – merchants will likely have problems with a lack of...
View ArticleGerman start-up launches human body transmitters
One German start-up has created an alternative to RFID that is likely to get under consumers’ skin. Ident Technologies has dreamt up Skinplex – which could be used in all the same ways as RFID and...
View ArticleRFID tags: The people say no
CNet news reports that when it comes to radio frequency identification tags for humans, the people have spoken. They hate it. CNET News.com recently ran a report on companies with technologies that...
View ArticleStatic over RFID
CNet new.com reports that a key patent holder’s demand for royalties has triggered concerns that promising RFID technology could become embroiled in an intellectual property battle. The royalty flap...
View ArticlePrivacy questions arise as RFID hits stores
Wal-Mart Stores, Procter & Gamble and other big companies pushing the electronic tracking tags said they’d use them only in warehouses to more easily locate and account for stock arriving in cases...
View ArticleTracking RFID – it’s everywhere
CNet.com has a round up of articles about RFID: Privacy questions arise as RFID hits stores Companies brace for privacy debate, as potentially intrusive applications arrive faster than expected....
View ArticleDriverless cars have accidents, they aren’t anarchic enough!
Autonews reports that programmers working on driverless cars have found that having made them perfectly law-abiding, unable to commit traffic infractions, the result is that they have double the...
View ArticleDo want subsidized chips with your policy, sir?
“Government subsidies are never free, and now we are learning the price U.S. semiconductor firms and others will pay for signing on to President Biden’s industrial policy. They will become the...
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